Darkroom+ Membership

Darkroom+ is Darkroom's premium membership. It unlocks the full set of advanced tools across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro, and because it's an App Store purchase, all billing — pricing, trials, renewals, and refunds — is handled by Apple through your account. This page walks through the questions people most often bring to support: what's included, what it costs, how trials and cancelation work, and how to restore or share a purchase.

What Darkroom+ unlocks

Darkroom is free to download and includes many free features. Darkroom+ adds unrestricted export access along with the full premium toolset:

A useful quirk of Darkroom's model: you can open and fully experiment with every premium tool without a membership — a membership is only required for export. So you can build a complete edit with Color Grading, Masks, and Curves and see exactly what you'd get; Darkroom+ is what lets you save or share the result. It's a real try-before-you-buy, not a locked door.

• Metadata Editor - 2026 - Edit image metadata like date, location, camera, and more.
• Bloom and Halation - 2025 - Add analog warmth and cinematic glow.
• Color Grading - 2022 - Adjust the color of your photos to match your style.
• Local Adjustments with AI backed Masks - 2022 - Enhance the lighting in an area of your photo.
• Flag & Reject - 2021 - Efficiently cull your ever-growing photo library.
• Video Export - 2020 - Grade and export your videos.
• Watermark - 2020 - Explicit online protection and clear attribution.
• Customize App Icon - 2020 - Have a little fun and customize your home screen.
• Curves - 2015 - Achieve any look with just a few targeted swipes.
• Color - 2015 - Adjust the tone of individual colors.
• Premium Presets - 2015 - A collection of premium presets to help you get started.

Plans and pricing

Darkroom+ is usually offered three ways: a monthly subscription, a yearly subscription, and a Forever one-time purchase. Prices vary by country and currency, and we occasionally run localized pricing tests and seasonal campaigns, so the most accurate price for your account is always the one shown in-app or on our App Store page.

Those seasonal campaigns — Black Friday, for example — are announced in-app and on our social channels. You almost never need a promo code: if your account is eligible, the offer appears automatically, though some campaigns apply only to specific plans (yearly but not Forever, say). If an offer doesn't apply correctly, email feedback@darkroom.co with a screenshot of the offer screen.

Occasionally we run pricing tests to understand what people feel Darkroom is worth, so the number you see may differ from a friend's. If we ever make a structural pricing change that affects existing customers, we'll communicate it clearly — your current plan won't quietly change out from under you.

You can start a membership from any premium tool's paywall in-app, from Settings in Darkroom, or from the Darkroom+ overview page. If you'd rather buy once than subscribe, look for the Forever option and tap show all purchase options if it isn't visible.

Trials, billing, and cancelation

Some plans and regions include a free trial; availability varies with App Store rules. You can cancel during a trial from your App Store subscription settings, but Apple may still charge if you cancel too close to renewal — so if you don't want it to renew, cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends. Apple controls all plan changes and cancelations through Manage subscriptions; their cancel-a-subscription guide walks through it step by step.

To make that deadline easier to hit, Darkroom can remind you before a trial or membership expires — turn it on in the Membership settings and you'll get a nudge while there's still time to decide, instead of discovering the charge afterward.

There's no one-tap way to convert a subscription into the Forever purchase. To switch, cancel your active subscription, let it fully lapse, then buy the Forever option in Darkroom.

Managing your membership in the app

The Membership pane in Settings is the place to check where you stand, on every platform — iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro. Beyond showing your current plan, it handles the situations that would otherwise mean a trip to the App Store or an email to us:

• Switch from Monthly to Yearly directly, without canceling and repurchasing.
• Resolve a billing issue. If Apple can't process a renewal — an expired card is the usual reason — Darkroom shows a Billing Issues state with an action that takes you straight to the fix. Your access continues during Apple's retry window, so acting on this promptly is what prevents an interruption.
• See when a membership is shared with you. If your access comes through Family Sharing, the pane says so with a Family Shared state rather than leaving you guessing why there's no subscription on your own account. Manage or cancel that one from the purchaser's Apple ID.

Apple remains the merchant of record throughout, so cancelations and refunds still go through your App Store account.

What happens if you cancel or lapse

Canceling doesn't put your work at risk. Darkroom edits non-destructively, so your original photos are never altered, and that doesn't change with your membership status. The edits you've made and the presets you've created stay exactly where they are — nothing is deleted when a membership ends.

What changes is going forward: once Darkroom+ lapses, the premium tools return to try-before-you-buy mode, and you'll need an active membership again to export photos or videos that use premium edits. Your existing exported files are yours to keep regardless. Resubscribe at any time and everything picks up right where you left off — same edits, same presets, full export access restored.

Using Darkroom+ across your devices

Your purchase works on every Apple device signed in with the same Apple ID that bought it, and in most cases access syncs automatically via iCloud Keychain. If it doesn't appear, open Darkroom Settings, tap Already made a purchase?, and wait for the restore to finish. If a restore still fails, confirm you're on the right Apple ID, sign out and back into the App Store, make sure Darkroom is up to date, and check Apple System Status for any ongoing outage.

A few specific situations trip people up:

• "I paid but don't have access." Almost always this means you're signed into a different Apple ID than the one that made the purchase. Membership is tied to the Apple ID, not to a Darkroom account (there isn't one), so check Settings → [your name] → Media & Purchases on the device and confirm it matches the account you bought with.
• "You're currently subscribed to this." This message means the purchase went through on your Apple ID but Darkroom hasn't picked it up yet. Tap Already made a purchase? in Darkroom Settings to restore it onto the device.
• The restore spins and never finishes. Force-quit and reopen Darkroom, confirm you have a working connection, and try once more; if it still hangs, an Apple-side outage on System Status is the usual culprit.

If none of that resolves it, email feedback@darkroom.co and we'll help track it down.

Darkroom+ also supports App Store Family Sharing. Make sure Purchase Sharing is enabled and each family member is signed into the expected Apple account. Note that Apple may limit sharing of some one-time purchase types (like Forever or legacy) by device count, while subscription-based sharing generally has fewer restrictions.

Refunds

Apple is the payment processor and merchant of record for all iOS in-app purchases, which means we can help with guidance and troubleshooting, but refund approvals and payment reversals are decided by Apple. Start a request through Apple's refund flow. If you were billed unexpectedly, it's worth first checking your trial end date and renewal timing in your Apple subscription settings to see whether cancelation landed within Apple's 24-hour window.

Frequently Asked Questions

Related

• Settings — Membership pane, restore, and billing states
• Legacy Purchases — what a pre-2020 purchase still unlocks
• Report an Issue — when a restore or billing problem needs a look